Elevation profile
Lowest point 0 m, highest 53 mElevations from EU-DEM (Copernicus), 25 m, along the OpenStreetMap layout. The yellow line follows the dot on the map.
Corners
In driving order from start and finish. Click a corner to highlight it on the map and in the elevation profile.By the numbers
A crash means a race retirement from an accident, collision or spin. Starts exclude non-qualifications, non-starts and exclusions.History
The Circuit de Monaco is a 3.337 km street circuit laid out through Monte Carlo and La Condamine, around the harbour of the Principality. Its 19 corners are taken clockwise. The idea of racing on the streets of Monaco came from Antony Noghès, president of the Automobile Club de Monaco. The first race was held in 1929 and won by William Grover-Williams in a Bugatti.
Because the track follows the principality's road system, its basic shape has stayed almost the same since 1929. The start and finish line was originally on Boulevard Albert 1er, moved to the opposite straight in 1955 and returned to its original place in 1963. In 1973 the circuit was altered in several places: a new section along the harbour past the swimming pool added 0.133 km, taking the lap to 3.278 km, and the tunnel was extended because of a new hotel. In 1986 the harbour chicane was reshaped into the slower Nouvelle Chicane. The harbour area was widened in 2003 and the stretch between Piscine and La Rascasse straightened, with a new pit complex following in 2004. Tabac was reprofiled in 2015, which cut the lap from 3.340 km to the present 3.337 km.
The circuit is narrow, with plenty of elevation change and tight corners. The Fairmont hairpin is taken at just 48 km/h, while the kink in the tunnel is taken at around 260 km/h. Overtaking is very limited, with the chicane after the tunnel the most likely place to try it. Building the circuit takes six weeks and dismantling it another three.
Juan Manuel Fangio won the first world championship race at Monaco in 1950 for Alfa Romeo. The next championship round there came only in 1955, and from 1955 to 2026 just 2020 was missing. Ayrton Senna won the most, six, while Graham Hill and Michael Schumacher each won five.
Moments
- 1973Jackie Stewart won for Tyrrell in the first race on the layout extended with the harbour section past the swimming pool.
- 1984The very wet race was red-flagged because of track conditions and not restarted, with Alain Prost winning for McLaren.
- 1996Olivier Panis took a surprise win for Ligier in changeable weather.
- 1997Michael Schumacher won for Ferrari after only 62 of the planned 78 laps, as the two hour time limit was reached on the wet track.
- 2024Charles Leclerc won for Ferrari and became the first Monégasque to win the Monaco Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship.
- 2025Lando Norris won the Monaco Grand Prix for McLaren.
6 layouts since 1950
Years without a Grand Prix at this circuit: 1951-1954, 2020.
Most wins
Click a bar to see every win here with year, team and analysis.
Layout and corner names: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL licence. Elevation: EU-DEM (Copernicus), 25 m. Data: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk, CC BY 4.0 licence.